e-biz idea;Online secretarial services

How passionate are you about your profession. Well, I met a very passionate woman who has taken secretarial profession to new heights. Aulien van Ginneken runs an online secretarial services business where she offers her services to secretaries, office managers, executive secretaries, managers and private persons.

This is an excerpt of what Aulien says about her professional career.

''I started my first office job at an investment company. After one year I went to Schoevers, a famous secretarial college in the Netherlands. As I graduated high school as a moderate student, I astonished myself with this secretarial course, which I enjoyed avidly, and experienced as very, very interesting and valuable. I concluded this course with a successful graduation, and: a passionate, qualified secretary was born!Several jobs followed, mostly at international companies, small and large, and each time I picked up valuable experiences which I took to the following job. In 2004 I decided to start as a freelance secretary, and since then I work for several clients at location or from my office. You could wonder why the profession of secretary is so interesting....

It is the combination of being the visiting card for the company; being able to handle complicated time schedules, whilst keeping overview; preventing mistakes, by reminding your manager or colleague of an appointment, deadline, of their colleague's birthday; being a walking encyclopedia (especially when you work at one place for a longer period); being a sparring partner for your manager or colleagues, organizing interesting meetings or events, and often minute these; composing customer focused letters, e-mails, presentations, organizing business trips, etc., etc.''